What is "tidal flow"

Usage examples of "tidal flow".

All she remembered was the dreaming, although she knew that long stretches had passed in which she was intermittently aware of the struggle it took to draw a single breath, of fever and chills washing through her as though she were racked by a tidal flow.

Before she had a chance to turn her head, a powerful wave seized the Protector, pushing her due north, out of the tidal flow, toward the island.

Many figures moved beyond the corner of the residence: and by their voices, and coarse jesting, and the tidal flow of the crowd, she knew the feast had ended with her departure.

Once free of the crosscurrents, the tidal flow around the island was gentle, the waves small and slow, lapping at the sands.

The rate of drift affected the time, the wind direction the place, but nothing could stop us hitting the rock-bound coast of Shetland - except possibly the speed and direction of the tidal flow.

When he paused this time he could feel all of them there below him, waiting for his words, powered, just as he was powered at that moment, by the great tidal flow of his rhetoric.

She saw, around them and beyond them, the steady tidal flow of troops and servants toward a distant goal.

Who can say by what unspoken timbre the tidal flow of the fight is communicated within the massed ranks?